Nobody was more surprised to see Dudley O'Shaughnessy kissing Rihanna than his mother. When the Bajan pop star's drug-and-sex-fuelled music video We Found Love went live last Wednesday, with O'Shaughnessy playing her lover, "my mum was a bit like, 'waheey' at the kissing scenes," he says.

Singer Paloma Faith will relaunch the Stompin' at the Savoy concerts on October 29.

The star will perform in front of a 30-piece orchestra for dinner guests in the five-star hotel's refurbished Lancaster ballroom, which will be transformed into a "decadent supper club from the Forties" for the occasion.